Deaths
- March 23 - Jean-Baptiste Dubos, French author (born 1670)
- April 27 - Nicholas Amhurst, poet and political writer (born 1697)
- July 9 - John Oldmixon, English historian (born 1673)
- July 14 - Richard Bentley, English scholar and critic (born 1662)
- July 19 - William Somervile, English poet (born 1675)
- November 24 - Andrew Bradford, American publisher (born 1686)
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